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M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y Presents The Fate of Painting A slide lecture by John Zinsser Wednesday July 2, 2008 6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor Mid-Manhattan Library The New York Public Library 40th Street and 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016 212-340-0871 Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m. All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation. Contemporary art and its audience are moving into ever new and challenging territory. Yet painting, as a historically-established medium, always remains central to the dialogue. John Zinsser will provide a larger art historical context to frame the current paradigm shift. He argues that we have entered a time of increased “lexical crisis” as artistic practices collide freely with viewer responses. Modernism, and its attendant painting developments—cubism, expressionism, geometric abstraction, pop and minimalism—have launched a hybrid visual genealogy. And its recombinant qualities have only just begun to be explored. The lecture will move forward from the European model of Picasso and Mondrian to the American response of Pollock and Warhol. Now, we see a 21st Century aesthetic forming from the likes of painters Luc Tuymans, Karen Kilimnik, Anselm Reyle and Wade Guyton. What marks this movement? And where will it take us? John Zinsser (b. New York, 1961) lectures on art history at the New School University. An abstract painter, he has been showing regularly in the United States and Europe since the late 1980s, and his work is held in major public and corporate collections. His recent show at James Graham & Sons was reviewed in The New York Sun and the Brooklyn Rail. Galerie S65 in Belgium has represented his work since 1993. He has worked broadly in the art field as a writer, editor and public speaker. He co-founded Journal of Contemporary Art in 1988 and has written extensively about contemporary painting. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]